Happy Burns Day/Night

zippypablo
zippypablo Posts: 398
edited January 2012 in The bottom bracket
Anyone having haggis or going to a Burns supper to celebrate a long dead serial sh@gging poet?
If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights. (Victor Hugo).

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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    I normally do but I am too busy this year.

    I will be raising a dram or two though and may well have haggis for dinner.
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • stevo1602
    stevo1602 Posts: 43
    It's also the Chinese New Year.
    So if you want to celebrate both, give someone a Chinese Burn.......bum bum.

    Sorry I'll get my coat
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    I had the honour of addressing the haggis at a local burns night held on Saturday, really enjoyed it, both the ceremony and the supper.

    If you've never been to one they're a good night out (well ours is anyway) It has the ballance right not irreverend without being like a load of old stuffed shirts job.
    Tail end Charlie

    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • corona
    corona Posts: 116
    I will be having haggis tonight, its been in the freezer since summer and Ive been tempted by it many times.
  • Gazzetta67
    Gazzetta67 Posts: 1,890
    Had ma Haggis,neeps & tatties last night 8) - to heavy for the gym tonight.
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    I'm having veggie haggis, i know i know, and a single malt i got for xmas. somewhere down the line my grandmas relatives came from the highlands - so i'll be raising a drink to the kilt wearing whisky swilling part of my 'clan' hehe.
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • zippypablo
    zippypablo Posts: 398
    Where did you get veggie haggis from?
    I was looking for some for a friend at work but couldn't find any.
    If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights. (Victor Hugo).
  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    Macsween make a really good veggie haggis and I'm sure it's sold south of the border.

    I'm going to have a baked sweet potato with said veggie haggis for my tea :-)
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Morrisons had them 1.50£
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • JamesB
    JamesB Posts: 1,184
    Macsween make a really good veggie haggis and I'm sure it's sold south of the border.

    yes defo sold south border, available in Kington, Herefordshire :) but had the meat version instead, very nice with a wee (large actually, slainte )Talisker, made all better by being my b`day too :):):):)
  • hulla the hulla
    hulla the hulla Posts: 338
    No haggis for me but happy to announce I am 1/2 way through a very nice bottle of Glenvilet...Glenlvite...whiskey Hic
    A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it

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  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    I suspect haggis is something I'd have been able to eat and enjoy if I hadn't already been told what was in it. But now that I know its ingredients beforehand I could never actually put any of it in my mouth. I also prefer bourbon to scotch. So as far as Burns night goes that just leaves the poetry.
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    verylonglegs wrote:
    I suspect haggis is something I'd have been able to eat and enjoy if I hadn't already been told what was in it. But now that I know its ingredients beforehand I could never actually put any of it in my mouth. I also prefer bourbon to scotch. So as far as Burns night goes that just leaves the poetry.

    Believe me haggis is far more tasty than the sum of its parts, lovely, honest.
    Tail end Charlie

    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    verylonglegs wrote:
    I suspect haggis is something I'd have been able to eat and enjoy if I hadn't already been told what was in it. But now that I know its ingredients beforehand I could never actually put any of it in my mouth. I also prefer bourbon to scotch. So as far as Burns night goes that just leaves the poetry.

    This attitude really amuses me. Do you eat sausages? Do you know what goes in them? You probably don't want to.....
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    hulla the hulla wrote:
    No haggis for me but happy to announce I am 1/2 way through a very nice bottle of Glenvilet...Glenlvite...whiskey Hic

    It's clearly affected your spelling. :wink:
    Whisky.
    Good taste though. I have a glass of the 15 year old next to me here :P
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    Frank the tank wrote:
    verylonglegs wrote:
    I suspect haggis is something I'd have been able to eat and enjoy if I hadn't already been told what was in it. But now that I know its ingredients beforehand I could never actually put any of it in my mouth. I also prefer bourbon to scotch. So as far as Burns night goes that just leaves the poetry.

    Believe me haggis is far more tasty than the sum of its parts, lovely, honest.

    I don't doubt you at all, it's a mental block I have about eating organs that I can't break. I love meat (pnfarr pnfarr) and I tease some veggie friends who say they can't eat it but in turn I find it hard to get over the eating of internal organs. Liver and bacon for example, smells fantastic, tastes great too...but then the texture thing comes in and I think 'Liver! you are eating organs'...and I can't go on. But if I had tried haggis not knowing what it was I most likely would have scoffed it down.
  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    I certainly did partake of a haggis, and very nice it was too. Carried on the "north of the border" theme thanks to a special offer at the local supermarket on the always-excellent Deuchars IPA to wash it down with. :)

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal

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